[Mageia-dev] systemctl closelog httpd.service not working

Fri Dec 14 10:43:35 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Richard Couture at 14/12/12 01:14 did gyre and gimble:
+> While teaching a class in admin of GNU & Linux I noted that logrotate
+> was using SysV notation to close the logs in order to rotate them
+> service httpd closelog
+> which works fine, but the equivilent command in systemd
+> systemctl closelog httpd.service
+> does NOT work
+
+This is not expected to work.
+
+sysvinit scripts allowed arbirary commands to be registered but systemd
+does not accept any random commands.
+
+"killall -HUP httpd" should do the same thing.
+
+Of course in my opinion the best solution is to hook up apache instead
+into the journal. I'd love to have a more structured logging for my web
+sites - having had to dig into logs recently for some analysis, the
+indexed and searchable logs available via journald would be far, far
+nicer :)
+
+Col
+
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